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Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story
by Bossy, John
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300094507
- ISBN 13
- 9780300094503
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Yale Nota Bene Yale University Press, 2002. -----Large soft cover, tight square and clean, no names, flat uncreased spine, (xiii) 189 pages with photos, Near Fine condition. "In the latter part of the sixteenth century, Elizabethan London was uneasy: was it France's intent to side with Protestant England or with the hostile Catholic powers of Europe? Bossy describes the espionage operation that was devised to find the answer." Contents include: Illustrations / List of Abbreviations / Characters / Intro / Secrets and Secretaries / A Pot of Marmalade / A Castle in Spain / A Letter from the Queen / A Mole and His Masters / Proof / Dates in a Diary / From a View to a Death / Old Freinds / Endpiece / A Note of the Date of Fagot's Letter / Documents / Appendix: Letters Passed from Salisbury Court, July 1583 to November 1584 / Index. The scan you see is the book you get. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Cover Illustration: "Portrait of Ferry Carondolet and His Secretaries" Sebastiano del Piombo. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008622
- Title
- Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story
- Author
- Bossy, John
- Illustrator
- Cover Illustration: "Portrait of Ferry Carondolet and His Secretaries" Sebastiano del Piombo
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300094507
- ISBN 13
- 9780300094503
- Publisher
- Yale Nota Bene Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Bossy, John Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story Cover Illustration: "Portrait of Ferry Carondolet and His Secretaries" Sebastiano del Piombo Yale Nota Bene Yale University Press 0300094507 -----Large soft cover, tight square a
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- Mystery; Reference;
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- 12mo
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